Announcements

Dear Coaches and Debate Community,

On behalf of The Blake School, we invite you to the 64th Annual John Edie Holiday Debates from Saturday, December 19th to Monday, December 21st hosted at the Marriott City Center Hotel in Minneapolis, MN.

The tournament will feature open divisions in Congress, Lincoln Douglas, Public Forum and World Schools Debate. In LD and PF, we will be using the Jan/Feb topics and will have six prelim rounds. All LD and PF debaters with a 4-2 or better record will advance to elimination rounds.

The Edie is a Tournament of Champions qualifier at the Quarterfinal level in LD, the Octafinal level in PF and Policy, Tier 1 level bid in Congressional Debate (Top 6) and Semifinals in World Schools. Please submit Congress legislation no later than Monday, November 9th at 8pm. Please email to blakelegislation@gmail.com

In addition to the Edie Holiday Debates, we will host the Twin Cities Round Robin on Friday, December 18th for Public Forum (19th year) and Lincoln Douglas (5th year). This year on Friday, December 18th, we will hold the 2nd Annual World Schools Debate Training Workshop, details will show up on the WSD Information tab on this website.

It is with great pleasure we invite you to stay on after the tournament to join us at our 10th Annual Diversity Conference on Tuesday, December 22nd from 9am-12pm. Please click HERE for free registration!

Please complete THIS FORM if you are interested in being hired to judge at the Edie.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Sincerely,

Shane Stafford, Dr. Sandy Berkowitz, Deserea Lampe-McCoy, Christian Vasquez,

Nyla Crayton, Sierra Erdman-Luntz and Peri Kirkpatrick